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Bahrain

Name: Bahrain
Address: BH

Bahrain has a general data protection law with an adequacy-list transfer regime, a July 2025 national AI policy, and has hosted a hyperscaler region since 2019.

Bahrain's Personal Data Protection Law has applied since 1 August 2019 and allows transfers to countries on a regulator-published adequacy list, with case-by-case approval elsewhere (Reported). The Information & eGovernment Authority launched a National AI Policy on 27 July 2025 built on four pillars and adopted the GCC guiding manual on AI ethics (Primary). AWS opened a three-zone region in Bahrain in 2019 (Reported), and Beyon Solutions and Oracle signed a deal in February 2025 for a sovereign Oracle dedicated region (Reported). No capacity figures were found for any facility.

AI policy and activity

The National AI Policy is a framework document covering legal compliance, adoption, public awareness and cooperation. The page read does not set binding rules or compute targets.

Power and grid

Reported. AGBI (October 2025) cites roughly 66MW of IT capacity additions over 2024 to 2029, a 0.4 percent renewable share and a 20 percent renewable target for 2035, and quotes an Economic Development Board official on land competition between solar and data centres. We did not read a grid operator or regulator document, and the 66MW figure is a forecast of unstated origin in the article.

Data centres and compute

Data centres and compute
Site	Where	Status	Notes and source
AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region, me-south-1 Amazon Web Services	Bahrain (site not stated on the page read)	Operating	Reported. InfoQ (August 2019) reports the region launched in July 2019 with three Availability Zones. We did not read the current AWS regions page (the fetch was not permitted), so present status is not confirmed from the provider. (source)
Beyon Solutions and Oracle sovereign cloud (OCI Dedicated Region) Beyon Solutions (Beyon Group) with Oracle	Bahrain, hosted in Beyon Solutions data centres	Planned	Reported. DatacenterDynamics: agreement signed 6 February 2025 for a sovereign region keeping data within Bahrain. No launch date given in the article. (source)

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 30 of 2018) and 2022 ministerial resolutions Read the cited source	Law	In force from 1 August 2019	Reported. Clyde & Co digest: law in force 1 August 2019, regulator is the Personal Data Protection Authority, transfers to countries on its adequacy list need no authorisation and others need case-by-case approval, and ten ministerial resolutions took effect on 18 March 2022. We did not read the law text itself.
National AI Policy Read the cited source	Policy	In force from 27 July 2025	Primary. Information & eGovernment Authority news item dated 27 July 2025: four pillars (legal compliance, AI use and adoption, public education and awareness, local and international cooperation) and adoption of the GCC Guiding Manual on the Ethics of AI Use.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Bahrain: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/bahrain

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_bahrain,
  title        = {Bahrain: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0052}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0052},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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